Rachel Hubbard
Executive Director, KOSU Public Radio
Rachel Hubbard has been the Executive Director of KOSU Public Radio, based in Stillwater, OK, since February 2020.
She is a news veteran of more than 20 years and began her career at a small community radio station in Hobart, Oklahoma at the age of 16. Hubbard has been a state capitol reporter, news director and program director. Her journalism has won numerous awards including the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Scripps Howard Foundation Award for National Journalism and the duPont-Columbia Award.
She spearheaded KOSU's innovative collaboration with AAA music station, The Spy, in 2012. Under her leadership as Executive Director, KOSU's newsroom has more than tripled in size and became the first mainstream newsroom in Oklahoma to have an Indigenous Affairs beat.
Hubbard serves on the board of Station Resource Group and Public Radio in Mid America (PRIMA). She is a member of Rotary Club 29 in Oklahoma City. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Communications and a Master's Degree in Business with a focus on entrepreneurship from Oklahoma State University. She lives in Oklahoma City with her husband and sons.